Amid lockdown measures, food deliveries are gridlocked in East Africa and the U.N.'s World Food Programme is warning the delays will impact an already fragile food security situation in the region
KAMPALA/NAIROBI - Bottlenecks at borders as government screen lorry drivers to contain the new coronavirus are putting the delivery of vital food supplies in East Africa at risk, the U.N.’s World Food Programme warned on Friday.
The agency is shipping in 2,000 tonnes of beans and cooking oil to feed some of Uganda’s 1.4 million refugees. Some of it is stuck at Kenya’s Mombasa port and some is stuck at the Ugandan border, she said. Kenya’s port of Mombasa and Tanzania’s Dar es Salaam are the main gateway to the Indian Ocean for several landlocked nations, including Uganda, Rwanda and South Sudan.
Uganda started imposing restrictions on truckers late April after incoming drivers increasingly tested positive for the disease.
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